Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon)
Catacombs, Paris
1861
Albumen silver print from a glass negative
9 7/16 x 7 13/16" (24 x 19.8 cm)
Gift of Paul F. Walter
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
"At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled tot he vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size. Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones, we perceived a still interior recess, in depth about four feet, in width three, in height six or seven. It seemed to have been constructed for no special use within itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was backed by one of their circumscribing walls of solid granite."
- EDGAR ALLEN POE -
Vincent Prince wonderfully reading the story
A Tim Burton Film that rings of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
CATACOMBS, paris
Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon)
Catacombs, Paris
1861
Albumen silver print from a glass negative
9 7/16 x 7 13/16" (24 x 19.8 cm)
Gift of Paul F. Walter
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
"At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled tot he vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size. Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones, we perceived a still interior recess, in depth about four feet, in width three, in height six or seven. It seemed to have been constructed for no special use within itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was backed by one of their circumscribing walls of solid granite."
- EDGAR ALLEN POE -
Vincent Prince wonderfully reading the story
A Tim Burton Film that rings of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
Connection
Fourth Wall